In person, Jonathan Mitchell is polite and even soft-spoken. But he's also relentless — even when he knows he's about to exasperate a federal judge. "Are you a Texan?" U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark ...

Enter the legal renegade whose mission, as he puts it, is to “undermine” the work of both originalists and progressives: Jonathan Mitchell, part cultural conservative, part demolition man.

Jonathan Mitchell is the creator of Senate Bill 8, a near-total ban on abortion in Texas. He's also the legal strategist behind similar efforts by conservative activists in other states.

Trial in the case was set to begin in Galveston, Texas, on Monday. On Thursday night, Mitchell filed a notice of “nonsuit with prejudice,” asking the court to dismiss his client’s lawsuit ...

Dickson’s collaborator, Jonathan Mitchell, filed a lawsuit against New Mexico’s governor and attorney general on behalf of the city of Eunice, N.M., which has passed an ordinance reviving the ...

Mr Mitchell, 47, is a law professor, legal theorist and the former solicitor general of Texas known for finding loopholes to aggressively litigate in favour of his clients – often with ...

Jonathan Mitchell, whose admirers have praised him as a “technical magician.” And it worked. S.B. 8 took effect in September 2021, despite providers’ petition to the Supreme Court to stay ...

Trump’s lawyer, Jonathan Mitchell, delivered a buttoned-down presentation that omitted all the bombast and hyperbole the former president’s legal representatives typically muster when they ...

Sometimes even big-time lawyers have trouble getting paid. Consider Jonathan Mitchell, who says his regular hourly rate is $1,200. The baby-faced Austin-based savant graduated from the University ...

Jonathan Mitchell, shown in a courthouse sketch arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court in November 2021, is the former solicitor general of Texas. He has opened up a private practice in Austin with ...